of gunfire. >>nomirandawarning?>> the fbi may want to explain that, it is a federal issue. >> had the boat been searched earlier? >> just a minute, we are going to finish the question. >> no, it did not. >> there was no miranda warning, they were claiming public safety exception. could we get explanation? >> there's public safety in cases of national security and involving acts of terrorism. the government has that opportunity, right now i believe the suspect has been taken to a hospital. we start with there. thank you. >> i'm sorry? >> will you seek the federal death penalty? >> you know, what i indicated earlier is that this is still an active, on-going investigation. we're going to be reviewing all of the evidence, before that kind of decision is made in terms of whether or not to seek the death penalty, you review all of the evidence and it is a very thoughtful, long process that is engaged and it is the attorney general of department of justice that makes that final decision. >> i'm sorry. karen? >> can you or colonel alben talk about what happened when you were on the scene,

time now we have a suspect who already was readhismirandarights.he already have a lawyer present. and i don't think that should affect any trained interrogator, any trained interviewer in doing their job. we have been doing this for many, many years. we did it against terrorist suspects, organized crimes, people who are charged with treason, spies, and it always worked, and it always gets the intended results. >> in terms of this breaking news that we've just got tonight. again, this is a senior government official saying that the initial interrogation of dzhokhar tsarnaev in his hospital bed, he says that he and his brother were not in touch with any overseas terrorists or groups. they conceived the attack on their own, motivated he told them by religious fervor. that's the language that i have been given. how -- how should that be approached in terms of strategically trying to unwind any threats that might exist beyond these young men? they're saying they acted alone. but presumably, the thing that made them want to do this could make other people want to do this as well. >> su